Bug#645461: Please consider renaming to perl-dbg to match the naming convention elsewhere in the archive

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:08:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: perl-debug
> Severity: minor
> 
> Every other debugging package in Debian uses the convention of appending
> -dbg to the package name.  Only perl-debug uses the suffix "-debug":
> 
> ~$ aptitude search '?name(-dbg$)' | wc -l
> 1649
> ~$ aptitude search '?name(-debug$)'
> p   perl-debug                      - debug-enabled Perl interpreter
> 
> Please consider renaming perl-debug to perl-dbg.

And, for a reference (though not a policy one):

<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-dbg>:

"A debug package is a package with a name ending in -dbg, that contains
additional information that gdb can use".

Sounds entirely reasonable and fairly un-disruptive. I guess we'll
want a transitional dummy package for a release cycle, but there are
no reverse deps.

Also, the package description should probably be revised, since it
doesn't make explicit mention of debugging symbols, only enabling
debugging features within perl.

Any objections to doing this now, for transition into unstable with
whichever of 5.16/5.18 we end up with?

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